Improved railway-switch



@uitrit giedre @stru-t @with Letters Patent N 93,298, dated .Aug-ust 3,18695 IMIPROVED RAILWAY-SWITCH.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part :if thesame.

To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES GREENMAN, of Scott township, county ofWayne, and in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Self-Adjusting Railroad-Switch; and do herebydeclare that the following is a full,.clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters of reference marked thereon, making a part of thisspecification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construetion of aAself-adjusting railroad-switch, and in the ar rangement of the deviceshereafter set vforth and explained.

Theaccompanyilug drawing represents a plan view of my invention.

Letter A represents the bed of the road, upon which are placedthestationary rails B and the movable ones The movable rails are pivotedto one of the ties at one end, so that they can be moved baek and forthon the steel plates D; andeach has a spring, E, bearing against itsside, of sufficient strength to shove the rail back into place after ithas been moved.

Secured to the side of the rails() are the pieces G, (one of whichtapers to a point,) which arev heid just far enough apart, by means ofbolts, to allow the anges on the car-wheels to pass between.

As the wheels move ou to the movable rails, the flanges strike againstthe pieces\G, causing the rails O to move sideways far enough to throwthe train on to the other track.

Through one end of each of these pieces and movabie rails there is anopening made, through which the guidesH pass, so es to guide the railsupon th ground. i

These movable rails represent the means by which the switch is changedfrom one track to the other, toward the right, without requiring theattendance of a switch-tenden In case it should be desirable to run onthe lefthand track, a lever connected with the staple fi, in theright-hand movable rail, will enable a person so to adjust the rail asto direct the train on to the left-hand track.

Should the train be on the right-band track, and it is desirable to backdown on to the .single one, the movable rail on the left hand canbeoperated in the same way.

As soon as the .flanges on the wheels have moved the rails C, and thetrain has passed by, the springs E l immediately move the rails intoplace again.

I:`[avi n,-;f` thus described my invention, What I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

lhe pieces G, secured to the sides of the movable l rails C, incombination with the said rails, splings E, uides H, and plates I), whenarranged and operating substantially as shown. l Y

In testimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto setmy handaudseal, this 28th day of May,

CHARLES GREENMAN. [n s.]

Witnesses f A. C. Moses, ELLASGREENMAN.

